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Matosinhos

Matosinhos is a city and a municipality in the district of in . The municipality covers an area of approximately 62.42 square kilometres and had 172,557 inhabitants in 2021.
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  • Type: City with 49,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Matosinhos Municipality” and “Matozinhos”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio do Mar and Fort of São Francisco Xavier.

Stadium
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The is a multi-use in Matosinhos, . It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Leixões. The stadium seats 6,000 and was built in 1963 and inaugurated on 1 January 1964 with a match against Benfica, who won 4–0.

Castle
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The , commonly known as the 'Castelo do Queijo', is a fortification situated on the coast of the civil parish of in the northern municipality of .

Public aquarium
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is an aquarium located in , . It opened on 15 June 2009 and is one of the Sea Life Centres in Europe, which are owned by Merlin Entertainments.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aldoar and Leça da Palmeira.

Suburb
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is a former civil parish in the municipality of , Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish , Foz do Douro e Nevogilde. The population in 2011 was 12,843, in an area of 2.41 km².

Suburb
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is an area in the Portuguese city of Matosinhos north of the Leça river. It was a civil parish until 2013, when it was merged with the parish of Matosinhos, forming .

Suburb
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is a civil parish of the municipality of . The population in 2011 was 38,012, in an area of 5.83 km2. The Hospital da Prelada, a reputed private hospital of Porto city established in 1988 which operates for the state-run national…

Matosinhos

Latitude
41.1807° or 41° 10′ 51″ north
Longitude
-8.6822° or 8° 40′ 56″ west
Population
49,500
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT MAT
Open location code
8CHH58J9+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2662254435
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2737824
Wiki­data ID
Q841299
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Matosinhos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متزنيش”
  • Arabic: “مَتُزِنيُش”
  • Armenian: “Մատոզիիուշ”
  • Asturian: “Matosinhos”
  • Basque: “Matosinhos”
  • Belarusian: “Матазіньюш”
  • Bulgarian: “Матузинюш”
  • Catalan: “Matosinhos”
  • Cebuano: “Matosinhos (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Matosinhos”
  • Chechen: “Матозиньюш”
  • Chinese: “Matosinhos”
  • Chinese: “馬托西紐什”
  • Chinese: “馬杜辛奴斯”
  • Czech: “Matosinhos”
  • Danish: “Matosinhos”
  • Dutch: “Matosinhos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتوسينهوس”
  • Esperanto: “Matosinhos”
  • Finnish: “Matosinhos”
  • French: “Matosinhos”
  • Galician: “Matosinhos”
  • Georgian: “მატოზინიუში”
  • Georgian: “მატუზინიუში”
  • German: “Matosinhos”
  • Hebrew: “מטוסיניוס”
  • Irish: “Matosinhos”
  • Italian: “Matosinhos”
  • Japanese: “マトジニョシュ”
  • Japanese: “マトシニョス”
  • Japanese: “マトジニョス”
  • Japanese: “マトシンホス”
  • Korean: “마토지뉴스”
  • Latin: “Matesinus”
  • Lithuanian: “Matozinjosas”
  • Lombard: “Matosinhos”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Matosinhos”
  • Mazanderani: “ماتوسینوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matosinhos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matosinhos”
  • Norwegian: “Matosinhos”
  • Persian: “ماتوسینوس”
  • Persian: “ماتوسینیوس”
  • Polish: “Matosinhos”
  • Portuguese: “Concelho de Matosinhos”
  • Portuguese: “Matosinhos”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Matosinhos”
  • Romanian: “Matosinhos”
  • Russian: “Матозиньюш”
  • Silesian: “Matosinhos”
  • Slovak: “Matosinhos”
  • Slovenian: “Matosinhos”
  • Spanish: “Matosinhos”
  • Spanish: “Matosiños”
  • Swedish: “Matosinhos”
  • Tatar: “Матузиньюш”
  • Turkish: “Matosinhos”
  • Ukrainian: “Матозінюш”
  • Venetian: “Matosinhos”
  • Vietnamese: “Matosinhos”
  • Volapük: “Matosinhos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matosinhos”
  • “Matosinhos”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Matosinhos”. Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.